Archives For November 30, 1999

Amy Nicole Schloemann, aka Amy Kinney, 36, Vallejo, California, was sentenced this week to 36 months in prison and ordered to pay $5,805,902 in restitution for her role in a real-estate related wire fraud conspiracy.

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Becky Lynn Ring, formerly known as Becky Lynn Stoltenberg, 38, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb to 12 months probation and ordered to pay $336,100 in restitution for her role in a mortgage fraud scheme.

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Vito C. Grippo, 58, Jackson, New Jersey, and Frederick “Freddie” Grippo, 32, Old Bridge, New Jersey, a father and son who ran a mortgage loan fraud scheme that succeeded in obtaining $4.4 million in mortgage loans while masquerading as a foreclosure rescue operation were both sentenced to prison.

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Cynthia Hosbrook, 41, currently a licensed real estate agent in Nevada, and Robert Hosbrook, 51, formerly a licensed real estate agent in Nevada, both of Henderson, Nevada, have been charged in U.S. District Court with conspiracy and fraud for making false statements to Wells Fargo Bank in order to get it to approve a short sale on their home.

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James Wazlawik, 48, Prescott, Wisconsin, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman to one day in jail, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for making a false statement to a bank in connection with a home equity loan.

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Earl Gross, 75, Las Vegas, Nevada, the former president and chief executive officer of U.S. Mortgage, a loan servicing company in Nevada, pleaded guilty for his role in a scheme to defraud Wells Fargo Bank of more than $8 million.

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Randy Alan Carpenter, 54, Spruce Pine, North Carolina, pled guilty to charges contained in the indictment, though the contents of the plea agreement remain sealed.

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Edward Adams, 69, New York, New York, an attorney, pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with his participation in a fraudulent real estate scheme.

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Eric Ray Hernandez, 37, and Monica Marie Hernandez, 32, Bakersfield, California, pleaded guilty before Senior United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, and bank fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme.

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Brent Edward Lovett, 50, Henderson, Nevada, who made false statements to a federally insured credit union to obtain a $7.5 million real estate loan, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Roger L. Hunt to 98 months in prison, five years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution to the credit union.

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